sungrazer

English

Etymology

sun +‎ grazer

Noun

sungrazer (plural sungrazers)

  1. (astronomy) A sungrazing comet
    • 1991, Gregory L. Matloff, The urban astronomer, page 187:
      At least one sungrazer has been observed by a spacecraft to actually be destroyed as it rammed the photosphere.
    • 1992, C. Mattok, Coronal streamers, coronal loops, and coronal and solar wind composition, page 127:
      But Comet Howard-Koomen-Michels (Solwind-1) is apparently the only sungrazer that produced a detectable effect on the appearance of the Sun's corona (Michels et.al., 1982; Sheeley et.al., 1982).
    • 1997, Fred Schaaf, Comet of the Century: From Halley to Hale-Bopp, page 73:
      And there is no telling when another great sungrazer might come. But speculation about the splitting of sungrazers brings us to consider the origins of the Kreutz group.
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